Sometime after 4:30 p.m. on the afternoon of May 5, 1973, groom Eddie Sweat unlatched the front of Stall 21 in Barn 42 at Churchill Downs. Out came Secretariat. The strapping chestnut colt likely ...

Eddie Sweat, Secretariat’s handler and groomer, was with the horse everyday for more than two years. The inspirational relationship and horse’s unprecedented success translates into a story of ...

Owner Penny Chenery Tweedy died in 2017 at 95. Secretariat’s main groom and constant companion, Eddie Sweat, died in 1998 at 58. The country may have never heard of Secretariat if it weren’t ...

Fifty years later, Turcotte, 81, is the lone remaining member of Secretariat’s team. Chenery died in 2017 at age 95; Lucien Laurin passed in 2000; groom Eddie Sweat died in 1998; and exercise ...

who at 81 is the lone survivor of Secretariat’s inner circle, which included the owner Penny Chenery, the trainer Lucien Laurin and the groom Eddie Sweat. “He was doing things that we’ve ...

Turcotte is the lone remaining member of Secretariat’s team. Chenery, his owner, died in 2017 at age 95; trainer Lucien Laurin died in 2000; groom Eddie Sweat died in 1998; and exercise rider ...

Turcotte is the lone remaining member of Secretariat’s team. Chenery, his owner, died in 2017 at age 95; trainer Lucien Laurin died in 2000; groom Eddie Sweat died in 1998; and exercise rider ...

Turcotte is the lone remaining member of Secretariat’s team. Chenery, his owner, died in 2017 at age 95; trainer Lucien Laurin died in 2000; groom Eddie Sweat died in 1998; and exercise rider ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Secretariat had an unusually large heart, an engine that propelled him to a Triple Crown sweep 50 years ago. The colt nicknamed Big Red remains the heartbeat of an industry ...